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April 14, 2026

Why I Do My Best Work When Not Thinking: On Instinct & Flow

My Best Work Happens When My Mind Feels Quiet Over the past two years, I...

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January 22, 2026

Why 2016 Still Matters: Immigration, DJT, & the Before-Times

Why 2016 Feels Like the End of the Before-Times Yesterday I had to search “What...

January 14, 2026

Worry Into Power: How Love, Intention, and Vision Can Heal

A Return to a Time of Worry This week I was inadvertently transported back to...

January 01, 2026

The Power of Story in Spiritual Identity and Self Awareness

We do not experience our lives apart from the stories we tell of our lives....

December 2025

December 22, 2025

Christmas Blessing in Troubled Times: The Gift of Attention

The Subversive Witness of Christmas Often at Christmas I share a series of articles about...

December 02, 2025

The Hidden Burden of Chronic Shame: A Personal Reflection

Admitting the Weight We Carry During a recent deep conversation with a friend, we both...

November 2025

November 08, 2025

Truth and the Loss of Control: On Thomas Merton’s ‘Affair’

Truth and the Loss of Control It seems at least once in our adult lives,...

October 2025

October 26, 2025

Freedom in Humility: God Loves Us Even When We’re Imperfect

If anything distinguishes ancient life from modern life—with our constant connectivity via the internet and...

October 13, 2025

God Chooses Powerlessness

I often hear people question the existence of God because of theodicy, which is the...

October 02, 2025

The Secret Life of Chronic Illness

If you or someone close to you has a chronic illness, defined as “a health...

September 2025

September 22, 2025

Learning to Live Together ‘Some Other Way’

In 2003, during a period of change in myself and my life, I wrote and...

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May 05, 2025

Simple Pleasures: On Finding Happiness Where We Can

Today in my car, I played Kate Rusby’s ‘Hourglass,’ which I hadn’t heard in ages,...

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March 02, 2025

Dawn Come Swiftly: Finding Hope in Ancient Words

This week I found my essay written in November 2016, just days after the first...

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June 11, 2024

Why the Slow Work of Transformation Beats Legalism

Transformation beats moralism. But as a young adult, effort was my mantra. And effort, coupled...

June 03, 2024

Overcoming Anxiety: Mental Health Recovery and Hope

It is there as I do the things I love—from drinking my morning latte to...

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April 24, 2024

Reverend Taylor and the Church of Swifties

For many millennials (not to mention others), Taylor Swift is a religious experience. One such...

April 15, 2024

What Makes Us Human: On AI and the Human Animal

Since the release of ChatGPT[1] a little over a year ago, many have posed the...

April 08, 2024

Living in Hope of Renewal: On Arendt and Easter Season

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope...

January 2024

January 02, 2024

How Might Christians Invest in Peace Instead of War?

These days have me remembering a book from the early 2000s that impacted me—a book...

December 2023

December 16, 2023

Advent: An Invitation to Remove Obstacles to the Divine

Have you found yourself in such intense struggle you could barely find a path forward?...

December 11, 2023

3 Ways Religion Helps Us Embrace Complexity

{If you'd like to listen to this piece rather than read, click below on the...

November 2023

November 28, 2023

The Subversive, Confrontational, Emboldening Stories of Christmas {Part Two}

{Perhaps my favorite thing about this season is reminding readers (and myself) how subversive are...

November 20, 2023

The Subversive, Confrontational, Emboldening Stories of Christmas {Part One}

Perhaps my favorite thing about the Christmas season—just a few days away—is reminding myself and...

November 14, 2023

The Magic of Godparenting

In the earliest photo of us, I am concealed behind the bloom of Wren’s baptismal...

October 2023

October 17, 2023

‘The Mercy of the Fallen’: Using our Failures for Good

A repeated theme in the gospels is riddles. Both people trying to trick Jesus with...

October 09, 2023

Why Stewarding our Talents Starts with Gratitude

Whenever I talk about parables, I include the same reminder: a parable is a snapshot,...

October 03, 2023

Finding a Wider View

The unthinkable is happening. One of the country’s two major political parties has become the...

September 2023

September 05, 2023

What Does it Mean Today to ‘Take Up Your Cross’?

What does it mean in our context to “take up one’s cross”? And how is...

August 2023

August 23, 2023

When Joy is a Field of Wildflowers: Adopting a Perspective of Abundance

Over half of my life I operated not from a perspective of abundance but scarcity....

August 16, 2023

Why it Matters that Mary was Like You

This week, our farm acquired a rooster needing a home. He is big and bantam,...

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